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  • #1
    Osamu Dazai
    “Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #2
    Osamu Dazai
    “Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #3
    Osamu Dazai
    “The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #4
    Osamu Dazai
    “For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #5
    Osamu Dazai
    “I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, it’s sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leaves—it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #6
    Osamu Dazai
    “As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #7
    Osamu Dazai
    “People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #8
    Osamu Dazai
    “He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #9
    Osamu Dazai
    “All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #10
    Osamu Dazai
    “The thought of dying has never bothered me, but getting hurt, losing blood, becoming crippled and the like—no thanks.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #11
    Osamu Dazai
    “I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.”
    Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

  • #12
    Osamu Dazai
    “I could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #13
    Osamu Dazai
    “Disqualified as a human being.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #14
    Osamu Dazai
    “The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision.”
    Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

  • #15
    Osamu Dazai
    “I yearned for everything long gone.”
    Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #18
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #19
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #20
    “Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
    Terry Johnson, Insignificance

  • #21
    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    Margaret Mead

  • #22
    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    Albert Camus

  • #23
    May Sarton
    “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
    May Sarton

  • #24
    “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
    Stephen Hawking

  • #25
    William Shakespeare
    “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
    William Shakespear, Hamlet

  • #26
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #27
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    William W. Purkey

  • #28
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #29
    Nelson Mandela
    “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
    Nelson Mandela

  • #30
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    Rumi



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